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Bob Andelman is the author or co-author of several best-selling biographical, business, management and sports books.
Since February 2007, Andelman has also produced and hosted the extremely popular “Mr. Media Radio†celebrity and media newsmaker online interview show heard on his own site, http://www.mrmedia.com. The show is
available first on the BlogTalkRadio network. It is then syndicated via iTunes, Mediafly, Medfeedia, MeThings, Podcast, Zimbio, Podfeed.Net, Podcast.De, Blubrry, Zencast, Zimbio, LimeCast, Podcast Alley, PodcastDirectory and Odeo. The show averages approximately 2,500 visitors/archive downloads a day.
His latest project is:
• Mind Over Business (Pedigree/Penguin), written with nationally recognized sports psychologist and athletic trainer Ken Baum. Publication Date: 2012.
Previous books include:
• The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths (Hyperion/Voice, May 2010), written with nationally recognized criminal profiler and frequent CNN contributor Pat Brown.
• Four Seasons: The Philosophy of a Business (Portfolio/Penguin, 2009), by Isadore Sharp, founder and chairman of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Andelman did not author or co-author this book but came in and helped Sharp near the end of the writing process by conducting dozens of interviews with Four Seasons managers and executives and contributing additional material to the finished manuscript.
• Fans Not Customers (Portfolio/Penguin, ----), written with Commerce Bank founder and chairman Vernon W. Hill II, was completed and accepted by the publisher in May 2007 and in typesetting when Hill was forced out of the bank.
• Will Eisner: A Spirited Life (Dark Horse/M Press, 2005), the biography of the legendary artist and writer who is often credited with taking comic books out of the ghetto in the 1940s and establishing the market for adult, long-form comics – graphic novels – in the 1970s. A Spirited Life has been translated for Spanish and Italian editions. Andelman also recorded the audiobook edition. http://www.aspiritedlife.com
• The Profit Zone: Lessons of Strategic Genius from the People Who Created the World’s Most Valued Companies (Times Books/Random House, 1997), with Adrian Slywotzky and David Morrison, partners in Boston-based Mercer Management. The Profit Zone is Andelman’s best selling book overall with more than 100,000 hardcover copies in print after 10 printings. Worldwide, The Profit Zone has been translated into Chinese (Complex and Simplified), Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
• Built from Scratch: How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion (Times Books/Random House, 1999), on which he collaborated with Home Depot co-founders Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank. CNBC’s “Mad Money†host Jim Kramer endorsed the timelessness of Built From Scratch when he told his viewing audience, “Built from Scratch is the best of all those business biographies.†Built From Scratch was translated for a Japanese edition.
• Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great (Times Books/Random House, 1996), with Albert J. Dunlap, chairman and CEO of Sunbeam. Published in hardcover, paperback and audiocassette. Mean Business was a finalist in the Financial Times of London Global Business Book Awards.
